[Upcoming] Making Space: Independent Artist Initiatives in Taiwan since 1988

Introduction: Making Space
– Wing Chan and Nicole Wang

Rewriting the Terms: Independence and Its Displacements in Taiwan’s Art Spaces, 1988–2018
– Nicole Wang

Alternative Spaces: Alternative to What?
– Lien Teh-Cheng, 1993

Do It Yourself! Shaping Subjectivity through Independent Productions and Internet Citizen Media at ET@T
– Yeh Hsing-Jou

From Intensity to Casualness: Transformation of Experimental Art Spaces in Southern Taiwan Before and After the Lifting of Martial Law
– Lee Jiun-Shyan, 2006

Relational/Discursive Spaces in Taiwan, and a Timeline
– Wu Mali

Independence as Voice-Over: A Brief History of Indigenous Art Spaces in Contemporary Taiwan
– Lu Wei-Lun

An Ancient Path: A Conversation with Dondon Hounwn on Elug Art Corner
– Nicole Wang

Case Studies and Archives

IT Park
with voices of Chen Hui-Chiao, Jun T. Lai, Tsong Pu, Emily Shih-Chih Yang

Space II
with voices of Marvin Minto Fang, Hwang Wey-Jeng, Lin Pey-Chwen, Emily Shih-Chih Yang

Up Art Gallery
Up Art Gallery 1990–95: Field Practice of Co‑operative Galleries and Independent Art Spaces
– Wang Pin-Hua

Corner Culture
with voices of Chou Yung-Chong, Chuang Hsiu-Hui, Hsueh Yung, Li Wan-Ning, Wang Ya-Lun, Wong Bang-Rong

Shin Leh Yuan Art Space
with voices of Tu Wei, Wang Te-Yu

Bamboo Curtain Studio
Tension in Collaboration, Intermediation and Alternativity: Bamboo Curtain Studio and the Archive of ‘Art as Environment –A Cultural Action at the Plum Tree Creek’
– Fiona Yu-Lun Hsu

Sin Pin Pier Art Space
with voice of Chen Shui-Tsai

Paint House Studio
Fresh Paint! Come In and Have a Look.
– Yu Wei, 2002
with voices of Hsu Yuan-Ta, Lin Huang-Ti, Yu Wei

About ‘Independent Art Spaces of Taiwan’

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Making Space: Independent Artist Initiatives in Taiwan since 1988

As Taiwan transitioned from martial law, space became a new ground for artistic experimentation. On their own terms, artists reclaimed private apartments, vacant buildings and commercial premises to forge independent venues for radical exhibitions, curatorial experiments, community gatherings and new discourses. What had been called ‘extra-institutional artistic practice’ gradually expanded to reinvent independent art spaces themselves, with wide-ranging implications: from local river ecologies to public policy. Making Space: Independent Artist Initiatives in Taiwan since 1988 explores how Taiwan’s ‘avant-garde’ art transformed into what we now recognise as ‘contemporary art’, and where independent curatorial practice, led by artists, first took root.

Edited by Nicole Wang. Contributors include Wing Chan, Chen Hui-Chiao, Chen Shui-Tsai, Chou Yung-Chong, Chuang Hsiu-Hui, Dondon Hounwn, Marvin Minto Fang, Fiona Yu-Lun Hsu, Hsu Yuan-Ta, Hsueh Yung, Hwang Wey-Jeng, Jun T. Lai, Lee Jiun-Shyan, Li Wan-Ning, Lien Teh-Cheng, Lin Huang-Ti, Lin Pey-Chwen, Lu Wei-Lun, Tsong Pu, Tu Wei, Nicole Wang, Wang Pin-Hua, Wang Te-Yu, Wang Ya-Lun, Wong Bang-Rong, Wu Mali, Emily Shih-Chih Yang, Yeh Hsing-Jou and Yu Wei.